Perfectly Flawed

For me, this post is the most important of all 3 so far. Throughout the first half of this series, you got to know my struggles with depression and anxiety on a deeper, more vulnerable level, compared to what I’ve shared before on my blog. However, this post delves into everything that helped me to get to where I am today, and all of the things I’ve tried/tested to find out what was best for me. When the struggle with my mental illness became all too much, I reached out to a handful of friends and family. Reaching out was the first, hardest step I had to take. There comes a point where the internal battle becomes so overwhelming, that you’re in the position where if you don’t tell anybody, your thoughts may take you to places even darker than where you currently are, so I took the leap and it paid off, to an extent. Speaking to my friends about what I was going through, almost opened my eyes to the severity of how I felt. I explained that I was feeling the way I was, and immedia...

It’s very seldom when anxiety strikes alone. With many mental illnesses, they never usually strike alone, there’s always something equally, if not more, intrusive that you have to deal with simultaneously. For me, anxieties sidekick; depression made an appearance, and stayed for quite some time. Too much time in fact. Here is how it all went… Many ask “does anxiety cause depression? or does depression cause anxiety?” I’m afraid I cannot give the answer to that question. Experiences vary from person to person, and each story is different. For me, the depression stemmed from the anxiety. The constant daily struggles with anxiety; the constant battle with worry and fear, the late nights, the early mornings, the pressures from school, the pressures in my home life, the pressures in my love life, all began to push me downhill, into this vicious cycle of depression.  It’s frustrating, because I can’t actually tell you when I first noticed my depression, it just began to slo...

Welcome to the first instalment of the ‘My Journey’ series. I write this series with every intention of being entirely honest and open with you guys, my readers. But most importantly, honest with myself! I write this series, not only to tell my story, but to inspire, motivate and encourage those who are reading this right now. I know some of you reading this are in what seems to be a dark place right now. You’re drowning in the pressures of life, and are slowly giving up. You feel alone, you feel unheard, you feel unappreciated, you feel invisible. Well, this is why I’m writing this series. I am writing this to tell you that you are not alone, you are heard, you are appreciated and you are visible! I know life can get the best of us as times, and we often succumb to the feeling of unworthiness, but I want you to carry on reading this. I want you to read the things I’ve been through, experienced and learnt from. I want you to understand that there is good in every bad situation, an...